We are always looking at what nature offers us in and around Lady Bird Lake. Our friend Jackie snapped this picture, thinking she was just getting a nice composition of swans and ducks. Upon further inspection, she says:I thought we just snapped a couple of swans, but looking more closely, the smaller one looks more like a young snow goose. Doesn't have the swan's black outline around the beak.
Yesterday as we walked on the trail by Zilker Park a young woman asked why there were so many kites in the trees. We explained how many were flying during the festival the day before. Here's a picture I snapped on Sunday when most of them were still free. Errant kites were seen in trees at least a mile away yesterday.
Family-friendly, fun, chaotic mixture of wholesome activities, picnics, dogs, people, strollers, bikes and, of course, kites at the annual Zilker Kite Festival. It was very hard to capture the spirit of it and how many people and dogs and kites there were. Finally settled on this one. Click on the picture for more detail.
Someone hired a couple of sign painters to block out this request last night on the parking garage below our balcony. When I got up it was still there and I had enough light to take a photo. I will be listening around the building to hear of the outcome.
Spring arrived a few weeks ago, no matter what the calendar says. The Mountain Laurels were pumping out a grape jelly smell that this bee appreciated greatly. Our friend Jackie took this last Sunday.
Shot this in February on a temperate day. The owner was apparently enjoying the public park at the Mueller Development.
Today is the first of the month and, hence, theme day at City Daily Photo. The theme is electricity. I've chosen to show a little detail, usually unnoticed in daily excursions, of a fuse box that apparently works a street light on the pole where I noticed it. All around us are thousands of meters, fuse boxes, wires, switches and transformers that bring us power and control it. We don't think much about it until it goes out.